Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history of business in Cambridge is to overrun the neighborhood," but Spartichino stressed that "a Kendall Square type atmosphere is not wanted here. We prefer quiet at night and non-existence on weekends...
...this community. The issue in the Colorado amendment ("no protected status for homosexuals"), I would say, is whether homosexuality should be perfectly respectable, or tolerated but disapproved. This issue seems to me perfectly within the competence and constitutional discretion of the Colorado voters. But in addition, I do prefer the latter view and I would have voted for the amendment. Why? Because I think that this position provides for less intrusion and more "live and let live." Readers of The Crimson will have to be told that this phrase appeared in my testimony; it was actually in the headline...
Somehow the difference between eliminating prejudice and eliminating heresy impresses me less than their similarity. I think I have seen something of the latter in the reaction here to my perfectly ordinary opinions on homosexuality. So I prefer the middle position of toleration, which I think safer and more humane...
Smaller traders may prefer a discounter with a lower minimum commission. For example, Kennedy, Cabot & Co. (800-252-0090) -- which is not remotely the old- line Massachusetts firm its name conjures up -- charges just $20 on "odd lot" trades (fewer than 100 shares) and as little as a penny a share commission on stocks selling for under a buck...
When New York City voters go to the polls next week, they will consider the same two major candidates they did four years ago: David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani. But this time the slate seems so disappointing to many New Yorkers that they would probably prefer to choose "none of the above." The reason: like the rest of urban America, the city has changed...